
The Foo Fighters are a decent little band that’s currently on tour to promote their new album Wasting Light. Like most bands, they’ve got a tour rider. And unlike most bands, that rider is a thing of beauty. The Smoking Gun has a copy of the thing (which might not have been totally unexpected, since tour manager Gus Brandt suggests readers “fire up the forward button and race to the Smoking Gun”), and right now they’re only releasing Part Seven. Still, since Part Seven includes coloring pages, a maze, a word hunt, and other activities you might remember from day care, it’s well worth checking out.
As riders go, this one is both fun and educational. You’ll learn the Foo Fighters are big fans of meat in general and bacon in particular, and perhaps not so enamoured of the French. You will learn that in the highly specialized field of ice-cube production, Hoshizaki America are “the ice-pimps of the world.” And the Foo fighters take these requests very, very seriously. As Brandt says: “If we’ve offended you then you probably weren’t that bright to begin with.”



















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Who?
Who?
Oh, come on. They’re a Nirvana spinoff. Been around for more than fifteen years now.
The Foo Fighters served a useful purpose as a foil for Mr. T in Robot Chicken.
Other than that? Not really.
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